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Anka-Eve Goldmann: The Woman Behind the Iconic ‘Girl on a Motorcycle’ Image
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Anka-Eve Goldmann At the words ‘Girl on a Motorcycle’, many of you will think of the iconic image of Marianne Faithful in the movie of that name. But who was the unwitting inspiration for that look? John Milton finds out. Back in the middle of the 20th century when a female riding a racing motorcycle…
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Readers’ Tale: A year to remember
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John Stevenson (aka 5012094 SAC Stevenson J) looks back on a special year in his life. Many people I think have a special year – always to be remembered. It could be national, such as the 1966 football World Cup or it could be personal. Perhaps trivial, perhaps not. Mine was the latter and the…
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The day I didn’t say hello to Mike Hailwood: a Daytona opportunity missed
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You know those moments when you later think “Why didn’t I do that?” Philip Ridley recounts one of those incidents in his life. I lived in Toronto, Canada, for ten years throughout the 1970s. I was then and still am interested in motorcycle road racing, as is my brother, Ralph. Ralph went to live in…
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Iron Offroad: the Leeds parts shop with 115 years behind it and a catalogue that goes back to 1974
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It is November, the Evo-class CR250R is on the bench, and the list is the usual one. Piston and rings. Base and head gaskets. Fork seals, because the left leg has been weeping since Farleigh. Rear pads. A chain that stopped being a chain somewhere around the fourth round. None of it is exotic. All…
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Tonkin Tornado: Steve Tonkin’s take on the ultimate café racer
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Steve Tonkin took on the task of building the ultimate café racer. After John Tickle sold the rights to Unity Equipe, they would eventually be acquired by Andy Molnar in 1994. A former TT racer who won the Junior TT in 1981, Steve would partner with Andy Molnar to build the Tonkin Tornado. Built to…
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‘I’d have done the TT but my wife stopped me!’: Racer and TNT Sports’ Sylvain Guintoli admits Isle of Man parade lap was ‘best adrenaline rush’ ever
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Popular Sylvain Guintoli has revealed he’d have added the Isle of Man TT to his awesome back catalogue of race experiences had his wife not put the brakes on his hopes. The French rider, a former World Superbike, MotoGP and BSB star, still competes in endurance racing but lists a parade lap on the island…
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The radical TT motorcycle that almost changed everything
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Almond Tinkler was a racer, inventor and engineer whose extraordinary ‘power egg’ motorcycle was unlike anything else at the 1927 TT – but exhaustion, breakdowns and bad luck prevented it from ever making the start line. TINKLER Almond Tinkler was a keen motorcyclist from the time he could throw his leg across a machine. In…
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The Thorough: the short-lived motorcycle that offered unusually long test rides
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At the end of the 19th century George Featherstone was an ironmonger living in Bethnal Green but he had a son who was interested in the great strides that transportation was taking. It seems likely that it was John Featherstone who persuaded his father into producing a motorcycle in 1903. By then, John, now in…
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Ariel Red Hunter: History & Road Test
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From the 1930s through to the late 1950s, Ariel’s single-cylinder offering was one of Britain’s most enduring sporting singles.
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Hidden Gems: Yamaha YDS6
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Steve Cooper looks at a single year model that you can still pick up for not a lot of money. That the Japanese motorcycle industry plagiarised the work of others is well documented. In the modern business world such artifice creates what’s known as a second-to-market product and often such offerings have some of the…
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